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[Jacobko75]

Hello,

I was dq'ed for an acl tear while at west point, having had surgery at keller hospital.

I am now trying to transfer to Army ROTC and they are requesting all hospitalization, imaging, and physician records to be emailed in PDF format.

Shouldn't the army already have these records considering my surgery was covered by the army and performed at an army installation?

Additionally, I was on medical leave, so I have been doing physical therapy and orthopedic check ups in florida. I requested pdf files of my records from them to which they said they're not allowed to do as they don't have encryption. They can be faxed, however dodmerb provided me no fax number. If anyone has insight onto this that would be much appreciated.

As for Keller Hospital records, do I still need to send those, as they said it could take up to 2 weeks, and I'd assume they should be already able to access them.

Thank you for your time.

 

[Herman_Snerd]

Hello,

I was dq'ed for an acl tear while at west point, having had surgery at keller hospital.

I am now trying to transfer to Army ROTC and they are requesting all hospitalization, imaging, and physician records to be emailed in PDF format.

Shouldn't the army already have these records considering my surgery was covered by the army and performed at an army installation?

Additionally, I was on medical leave, so I have been doing physical therapy and orthopedic check ups in florida. I requested pdf files of my records from them to which they said they're not allowed to do as they don't have encryption. They can be faxed, however dodmerb provided me no fax number. If anyone has insight onto this that would be much appreciated.

As for Keller Hospital records, do I still need to send those, as they said it could take up to 2 weeks, and I'd assume they should be already able to access them.

Thank you for your time.

A pdf copy of your medical records has been requested. Why not simply provide it. If your care team cannot provide a PDF, is there anyone in your family that has a fax number that is secure/ you can receive a fax at? If so, receive the fax, scan it as a PDF at home or at staples, then Email it to them as they requested. They didn't ask for a fax, but if you want the records to be faxed directly, confirm their
fax # @DODMERB at USAFA is still 719-333-3578. Attn: Records, then ask your providers to send it. \

The noise about what records you feel the Army should or shouldn't already have access to? Redirect energies here to just providing what they requested, in the format they requested. Assumptions that they should or shouldn't X are often the origin of a breakdown. This is too important to your future - get 'er done.

 

[justdoit19]

It could be that by doing this, you are expediting the process. IOW, you are getting them what they want, vs them having to do that process.

In the military, there often are redundent systems, that would be streamlined in the civilian world. Which is what you as a civilian are used to. So perhaps your statements make sense, in theory, but aren’t reality of what you are dealing with in the military world.

I’m with @Herman_Snerd. Just do what they ask. Don’t try and reinvent their wheel.

I hope this works out for you in AROTC. Curious, if you care to answer, why there isn’t a return to West Point? Why the change to ROTC?

Good luck!!

 

[Xijb]

You can also have them snail-mailed to you and then you can scan them with a free iphone scanning app like Genius Scan, if you have an iphone. Good luck!